第四节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
“Are you too stupid to do anything right?” These words — said by a woman to a little boy who was obviously her son — were spoken  26  he had walked away from her. The boy returned, his eyes downcast.
Not a   27   moment, perhaps,   28  small moments last a very long time. And a few words — though they mean   29  at the time to the people who say them — can have great  30 .
I recently heard a story from a man named Malcolm Dalkoff. For the last 24 years he has been a professional   31   . Here is what he told me:
As a boy in Rock Island, Dalkoff was terribly    32  . He had few   33  and no self-confidence. One day, his English teacher, Ruth Brach, gave the class an assignment. The students had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Now they were to write their own chapter that would   34  the last chapter of the novel.
Dalkoff wrote his chapter and turned it   35  . Today he can not recall anything   36  about the chapter he wrote, or what  37 Mrs Brach gave him. What he does remember is the four words Mrs Brach wrote in margin（空白）of the paper: “This is  38  writing.”
Fourwords. They   39  his life.
“  40  I read those words, I had no ideal of who I was or  41  I was going to be,” he said. “After reading her note, I went home and wrote a short story, something I had always been   42  of doing but never believed I could do.”
Over the rest of that year in school, he wrote many short stories and always brought them to school for Mrs Brach to evaluate. She was   43  , tough and honest. “She was just what I  44 ,” Dalkoff said.
His confidence   45  . Dalkoff believed that none of this would have happened if that woman had not written those four words in the margin of the paper.
26. A. where                 B. why                         C. because                    D. when
27. A. wonderful           B. difficult                    C. funny                       D. big
28. A. yet                     B. although                   C. for                           D. therefore
29. A. much                  B. little                         C. more                        D. most
30. A. meaning              B. power                       C. force                        D. sense
31. A. writer                 B. player                       C. poet                         D. singer
32. A. sorry                  B. proud                       C. sick                          D. shy
33. A. books                 B. ideals                       C. friends                     D. chances
34. A. follow                B. match                       C. decide                      D. improve
35. A. on                    B. in                             C. out                           D. down
36. A. more                  B. again                        C. different                   D. special
37. A. honors                B. remarks                    C. prizes                       D. grade
38. A. poor                   B. serious                      C. good                        D. silly
39. A. changed              B. damaged                   C. affected                    D. improved
40. A. Unless                B. Until                        C. When                       D. While
41. A. what                   B. how                         C. where                       D. which
42. A. tired                   B. fond                         C. proud                       D. dreaming
43. A. strict                   B. kind                         C. encouraging              D. praising
44. A. feared                 B. needed                      C. expected                   D. loved
45. A. grew                   B. lifted                        C. appeared                   D. returned